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Evolution Unleashed
Is evolutionary science due for a major overhaul – or is talk of “revolution” misguided?
Aeon,
2018
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Kevin Laland is a professor of behavioral and evolutionary biology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and leads the extended evolutionary synthesis research program.
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